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Here are many illustrations from Arabian Nights.

A ballet for each month of the year!

(no one asked but imma do it anyway, this is just my opinion obv. a mixture of classic and ballets russes repertoire)

January: Swan Lake (gives me winter vibes for some reason)

February: Petrushka (Carnival-esque with a bit of tragedy)

March: La Bayadère (spring vibes but not exactly)

April: The spectre of the rose (flowers! pretty pink flower petals!)

May: The Rite of Spring (spring. its brutal face. also the infamous riot which happened on May 29th 1913)

June: The Afternoon of a Faun (it's short, early lazy summer afternoon vibes)

July: Romeo and Juliet (the story happens in july according to shakespeare, also big passions=big heat so hot summer is perfect)

August: Shéhérazade (as i said before, eroticism + exotic visuals that shine like liquid gold = heat)

September: The Firebird (end of summer vibes, spooky fairytale with a happy ending)

October: Giselle (the opposite, looks cute at first, spooky and slightly gothic vibes for the 2nd act, perfect for october)

November: Sleeping Beauty (gives me end of the year vibes. lazy, sleepy winter)

December: The Nutcracker (obviously, the Christmas classic. THE december ballet lol)

Yannick Corboz

“tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.

these, our bodies, possessed by light.

tell me we'll never get used to it.”

Marilú Tolo and Anna Karina in 'Sheherazade' (1963)

Léon Bakst, Scenery for the ballet Scheherazade, The Arabian Nights (Rimsky-Korsakov) set design, 1910.